maybe microsoft could be sued for the ease it can be hacked? On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > It was quite malicious, with a big "fu, pay me!" message and where to send > fund negotiations via email. Stakes go up some if City of San Francisco > wants to collect toll on their subways come tomorrow morning hitting work > day. > > This is a gigantic burn to them, something the SF Muni IT themselves > likely can't handle recovery in any mass scale themselves (being probably > just run of the mill underpaid government windoze admins). No one really > knows how anything in Cali stays afloat with revenue they have let alone > now they can't even collect what they should thanks to every windows system > letting itself be owned. > > I'm really interested to see what comes of this. It should be a > foreboding tale of things to come for others. > > -mb > > > > On 11/27/2016 07:18 PM, Keith Smith wrote: > >> >> >> Civil disobedience of the computer kind!! I'm going to guess they were >> not malicious, which makes this humorous. >> >> >> >> >> On 2016-11-27 14:33, Michael Butash wrote: >> >>> The grinch that encrypted most of San Francisco Municipal's subway >>> systems over black friday: >>> >>> http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/11/26/you-hacked-cyber >>> -attackers-crash-muni-computer-system-across-sf/ >>> >>> Like a good little worm, it just worked its way into everything it >>> could, and here it found a ripe network full of windoze systems. >>> >>> Do you *really* trust this couldn't happen to your >>> business|house|government|life built on Microsoft technology? >>> >>> -mb >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: